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p class="mol-para-with-font">Neil Young has slammed Spotify's CEO and urged the tech company's employees to quit their jobs in protest against Covid-19 misinformation</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Neil Young has slammed Spotify's CEO and urged the tech company's employees to quit their jobs in protest against Covid-19 misinformation.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The singer-songwriter, 76, took aim at the streaming platform's boss Daniel Ek in the bitter feud over podcaster Joe Rogan, who has courted controversy with his views on Covid vaccines and his use of racial slurs.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Young's music was removed from Spotify on January 26 after he refused to share the platform with Joe Rogan, who he claims spreads misinformation about Covid-19 on his top-rated Spotify podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The move prompted Joni Mitchell and other artists to follow suit and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to 'express concerns' about its content.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Now in a new salvo, Young has continued his war of words in a statement on his website, saying: 'In our communication age, misinformation is the problem.Ditch the misinformers.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I say Daniel Ek is your big problem - not Joe Rogan. Get out of that place before it eats up your soul.' </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-b3e51a837f03c52a" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="429" width="634" alt="Neil Young has slammed Spotify's CEO and urged the tech company's employees to quit their jobs in protest against Covid-19 misinformation" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-b3e51a837f03c52a" website height="429" width="634" alt="Neil Young has slammed Spotify's CEO and urged the tech company's employees to quit their jobs in protest against Covid-19 misinformation" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Neil Young has slammed Spotify's CEO and urged the tech company's employees to quit their jobs in protest against Covid-19 misinformation</p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-52444f9234e50bf1" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="444" width="634" alt="The singer-songwriter, 76, took aim at the streaming platform's boss Daniel Ek in the bitter feud over podcaster Joe Rogan" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-52444f9234e50bf1" website height="444" width="634" alt="The singer-songwriter, 76, took aim at the streaming platform's boss Daniel Ek in the bitter feud over podcaster Joe Rogan" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">The singer-songwriter, 76, took aim at the streaming platform's boss Daniel Ek in the bitter feud over podcaster Joe Rogan</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Young also urged fellow musicians and artists to take their output elsewhere.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He said: 'The only goals stated by Ek are numbers, not art, not creativity.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'To the musicians and creators in the world I say this: You must be able to find a better place than Spotify to be the home of your art.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Young also urged people to move their money out of multinational banks JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup Inc, Bank of America Corp and Wells Fargo & Co, calling them 'damage causers' for their funding of fossil fuels.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He added that wealth should be redistributed to younger generations to help fight against climate change.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The singer said: 'To baby boomers, I say that 70 per cent of your country's financial assets are in your hands compared with just 5 per cent for millennials. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'You and I need to lead.In our age of Climate Chaos, I say ditch the companies contributing to the mass fossil fuel destruction of Earth.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Then be free and take the good path.' </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-6b0b5c4fa50fb7" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="358" width="634" alt="Young removed his music from Spotify after refusing to share the platform with the top-rated Joe Rogan Experience podcast" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-6b0b5c4fa50fb7" website height="358" width="634" alt="Young removed his music from Spotify after refusing to share the platform with the top-rated Joe Rogan Experience podcast" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Young removed his music from Spotify after refusing to share the platform with the top-rated Joe Rogan Experience podcast</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">His latest comments come after Spotify bosses backed Rogan but told staff that he does not represent the company's values - despite paying him $100 million in licensing rights for his popular podcast.    /sciencetech/spotify/index.html </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">In an internal memo sent to staff on Sunday, Ek apologized to employees for the latest controversy, where more than 100 episodes were pulled after a compilation emerged of the host using the n-word.   </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'There are no words I can say to adequately convey how deeply sorry I am for the way The Joe Rogan Experience controversy continues to impact each of you,' Ek said in the memo.' https://essayfreelancewriters.com/topics/art-debate-topics/ are some of Joe Rogan's comments incredibly hurtful - I want to make clear that they do not represent the values of this company.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I know this situation leaves many of you feeling drained, frustrated and unheard.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ek confirmed the removal of 113 episodes of the podcast from its platform after Rogan issued an apology for having previously used racial slurs on his show.The </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group mol-hidden-caption" style="style"> </div><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p><div class="moduleFull mol-video"> <div> <div itemprop="video" itemscope website content="Spotify CEO says company won't cancel Joe Rogan"></div> <meta content="PT01M00S" itemprop="duration"> <meta website itemprop="thumbnailUrl"> <meta website itemprop="contentURL"> <meta content="2022-02-07T22:00:14+0000" itemprop="uploadDate"> <meta content="576" itemprop="height"> <meta content="1024" itemprop="width"> <meta content="Spotify's top boss says he will not silence Joe Rogan but tells staff that he does not represent the company's values - 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